The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-27

", blowing the roof of. The baggage man
was quite seriously injured. The owner of
the gripsack was arrested.
An abortive attempt to rob train on the
Chicago & Alton near Independence, No,
took place on the night of the 18th.
The Secretary of the Treasury has modi-
fed the existing regulations so as to allow
free entry of naturally frozen fish, imported
in the condition in which they are caught,
without having been salted or otherwise
preserved.
THE French steamer Gironde, which ar
rived home from Buenos Ayres on the Doth,
had two cases Of cholera on board.
A DISPATCH from Peniche, Spain, SAYS
that the steamer Brentford, from Newport
to Malta, has been wrecked and all on
board but one were lost.
NOTICES publicly posted. inviting persons
qualified to act as overseers of military
transports to offer themselves for employ
ment by the Government in that capacity,
caused quite scare On the Vienna Bourse
recently.
THE lower house of the Illinois Assembly
has passed bill appropriating $4,000 for
the erection of monument to General John
A. Logan at Chicago.
"DOC'' LEVI WILSON CMoen's tormentor)
H.. l..
day on complaint of his father-in-laTy, Mr.
Caleb Farnum. Mr. Farnum was Wilson s
bondsman in a suit brought against him for
seduction, the case being an old one. Mr.
Farnum believed that he had found out the
true character of Wilson, and that he was
intending to leave the State
ONE Of the large grain elevator boilers of
Newport News, Va. exploded recently,
tearing tho brial- ,,;ooae
Samuel Robinson, assistant fireman, was
killed; W. McRae. fireman. was terribly
scalded, and David Scott, Richard Jordan
and William Narcese, colored laborers, were
badly burned
IT is reported that the German Govern
ment confiscates the property of and con-
demns to prison by default all the residents
of fAlsace-Lorraine who evade the conscrip-
ton by emigrating.
heavy ice gorges, each two miles long
and from five to twelve feet high were re-
Gently reported on the Monongahela river,
between Monongahela City and Elizabeth,
Pa. The water had backed up, and for a
time the bottom lands in the surrounding
country were threatened with inundation.
A SPECIAL from Ottawa, Can, says: ''Of-
fcials OF the Fisheries Department look on
the Fisheries bill as game of bluff. They
say it is poor return for six months free
use of the Canadian fisheries under prom
ise of the President of the United States
that the fisheries commission would be ap-
pointed at the next meeting of Congress,
which promise has not been carried out"
AsTROLoGER De LEON has been convicted
at New York of sending girls to Panama for
immoral purposes. The case excited consid-
cradle interest some time ago on its publica-
tion.
FOUR Pinkerton detectives have been ar
rested for killing a boy named Hogan at
Jersey City, n. j., recently. The detectives
fired into crowd who were jeering them.
ORDERS have been issued in Russian Po-
land forbidding the expectation of horses
to Austria or Prussia.
New ZEALAND has annexed the Kermadre
Islands in the South Pacific
THREE men were seriously scalded at
Lincoln, Ill, recently by vat of hot soap
grease suddenly opening upon them.
THE New Westminster (B. c. Hotel
burned the other morning, catching fire in
an unknown place. 1t was so quickly con-
sumed that three guests were burned to
death.
JUDGE SCOTT, of st. Clair County, Mo-,
the fugitive from United States Court pro-
cess servers. has been captured by Deputy
Marshal Willis. The judge had been in
hiding several months, the people being in
hearty sympathy with hlm in his refusal to
make tax levy to satisfy the fraudulent
Tebo & Neosho railway bonds issued in
1865.
Four hundred employees of the Universal
Rubber Company at Jersey City, n. j.,
struck on the 2lst.
JAMES BURKE, a roller employed at the
Columbia rolling-mill, Lancaster, Pa. fell
into the rolls the other day and was drawn
through twice. He received terrible in
juries and died soon afterwards.
THE dead body of a man named Brown. a
logger, was found under the ice in the
slough at Alton, Ill. recently. He had been
missed for two or three days.
JOHN PATTON, JR., & Co., of London,
owners of the Monarch line. have failed.
j. B. BUTTON, postmaster of Augusta,
Wis, has been arrested for short accounts.
Much uneasiness is expressed over the
appearance of smallpox in New York.
REPORTS show that all the missing fisher
men who were supposed to have been lost
b. the breakup of lake ice near Buffalo, n.
Y, recently reached shore in safety. Some
had very narrow escapes.
THE Goodyear rubber glove factory at
Waterbury, Conn, has closed down for
want of coal. One thousand hands are
thrown out.